Filthy stinking rabbits

[TPnTX]

I went by to check on a property that we just added color to last week. It's all gone. Every single plant is gone gnawed on down to the rootball. I thing we put in 7 or 8 flats. F'n rabbits.

They customer was pretty cool about it. I mean it ain't my fault. I just glad they saw all the pansies before the rabbits did else they'd be saying "what color?"

Anybody know of a good rabbit repellent?

[DA Quality Lawn & YS]

I HEAR YA BROTHER!!!
I DESPISE rabbits, I think they are the most destructive vermin to landscape plants ever created.

We have real problems up here, since wintertime snow renders most repellents ineffective unless continually applied. However in TX, you might try 'Liquid Fence' or 'Cridder Ridder' granules. However if the scurge get real hungry, this stuff wont even be too effective.....

Better to use your rifle if you can...Also, I live trap in the wintertime. Rabbits seem to be pretty dumb and will readily enter a live trap baited with apples or peanut butter and bread. Then you can just shoot them in the cage with an air rifle and dispose of them (PLEASE do not just let them go and cause other folks grief!)

[kps2389]

A .22 or 20 gauge is a pretty good repellant lol

[White Gardens]

I hate to say it, but get a couple of cats the roam the property.

[STIHL GUY]

a .22 is great for rabbits or a 410

[newz7151]

I hate to say it, but get a couple of cats the roam the property.

just make sure there is no spilled diesel around.

I spent 4 hours tonight cleaning my poor Grayboy, and STILL could not get all the diesel residue off of him (although he DID take to the bath water without clawing me up, I could even put my face down nose to nose on him and he wasn't scratching.. but he sure can meow!). Hopefully he survives the night outside and the diesel doesn't poison him if he licks. I'll try rubbing some corn starch into him tomorrow and see if that will attach to the diesel and can be combed out.

And so far in the past month or two, they have gotten two full grown cotton tails (and some squirrels and many rats/mice). I guess I have to be ok about them getting the rabbits. I can either have the cats who I can pick up and hold and talk to, or I can have the rabbits in the backyard that just run away from me.


But also, a different solution to the rabbits eating the flowers would be to install that clear netting like vegetable garden people do and then take it down after the flowers are finished. It's invisible from more than a few feet away but it keeps the rabbits out.

[44DCNF]

new7151, a bit of adviced that may help you at his point. A water soluble oil is very effective at removing a petroleum oil product. If you can, get a bottle of baby oil and rub it into your cats coat, then shampoo that out. The water soluble oil breaks down the contaminant oil, and makes it able to be washed away. This is the only method I have found to get rid of gas or fuel smell from clothing or shoes when they get soaked with it.

As for the rabbits, we are overrun with them too, in spite of a population of coyotes in the neighborhood. Sour apple possibly? Suppose to turn off domesticated wabbits.....? I've tried predator urines but didn't see any less traffic.....in fact found a pile of rabbit droppings directly below one of the dispenser bottles. Later, I read online that predator urines were used in olden days to attract rabbits for trapping.

[Lawn Freak]

I always see rabbits when I mow but I have never had a problem with them tearing up anything or eating any of my plants

[newz7151]

new7151, a bit of adviced that may help you at his point. A water soluble oil is very effective at removing a petroleum oil product. If you can, get a bottle of baby oil and rub it into your cats coat, then shampoo that out. The water soluble oil breaks down the contaminant oil, and makes it able to be washed away. This is the only method I have found to get rid of gas or fuel smell from clothing or shoes when they get soaked with it.

He hasn't shown up this morning yet like normal.. i'm trying to remain hopeful, but it's not looking good... Our mechanic said today that he saw him around lunch time yesterday coming from a location and that his back legs were all wet with something... now why didn't he tell me that at the time instead of me finding him like that almost 6 hours later?

[KACYDS]

I'm hunting rabbit.......lol

[Lawn Freak]

Well, off topic but hows the kitty?

[newz7151]

Well, off topic but hows the kitty?

Well, there must be some specific Baby Oil that you have to use, and then some special shampoo (as opposed to the dishwashing soap the vet said to use) , cause now I have an outdoor cat with baby oil on him and a dull white tint (i rubbed corn starch into his fur to try and soak up or dry up the baby oil since it is cool outside). I'll see if he is still around in the morning AND if he will come to me anymore. Whatever else is still on him will have to wear off.. i'm not putting him through "bath torture" again.

[Trenchblade]

we use a plastic netting over the beds till the rabbits are full and already finished doing it.

[djchiodo3]

Go to Gemplers.com They have several chemical rabbit repellents that don't require a gun.

[TPnTX]

so there is a correlation with wild rabbit sex and eating pansies?

[MOW ED]

Looks like a couple of boxes like this strategically placed may help. Then line up your 50 cal and get shootin.

[DA Quality Lawn & YS]

so there is a correlation with wild rabbit sex and eating pansies?

I have this covered except for the eating pansies part:)
Married and legal of course.

[TPnTX]

I know I laughed at that while typing it. I kept remembering doing just that. :) Had to poke out my minds eye.

[DA Quality Lawn & YS]

I would like to reiterate my disdain of rabbits now.